Destin LeBlanc has over thirty-five years of Technical Service and Product Development experience in specialty chemicals and medical technologies, the last twenty-five years of which have been involved with various aspects of cleaning and cleaning validation in pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing. These include years with STERIS Corporation at their Cleaning and Microbial Control Technology Center in St. Louis, and with Calgon Vestal as part of Merck & Co., Inc. and then as part of Bristol-Myers Squibb. At the end of 2000 he went into full time consulting as Cleaning Validation Technologies.

Since 1990, he has specialized in pharmaceutical cleaning validation, and has written and lectured internationally on cleaning validation, both as part of technical symposia as well as on-site company training. He has worked with both large and small pharmaceutical companies on various aspects of cleaning and cleaning validation. He brings a unique perspective because of his expertise in effective design of cleaning processes as well as validation of those processes.

He was co-chair of a PDA task force to prepare Technical Report #49, “Points to Consider for Biotechnology Cleaning Validation” and was the chair of a PDA task force to revise and update Technical Report #29, “Points to Consider for Cleaning Validation”

WORK EXPERIENCE

1/01 to present

8/80 to 12/00

STERIS / Calgon Vestal St. Louis, MOThis was actually one continuous work experience, except that at various times STERIS, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, Chemed, and W.R. Grace owned the company I worked for. Various titles and responsibilities were: